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This user likes making userboxes. In an emergency, he would be happy to be slapped with a trout.

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This user likes works alongside public libraries to develop mliteracy. Build an Template:Infobox library, make a librarian shelfie

This user thinks more editors should try conducting original research on Wikiversity.

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Hello current and aspiring Wikipedians

My name is Derek

I’m an ed Techie; post digital learning designer and I manage, research, support or enable knowledge structures and patterns. My digital teaching and learning is both visible and persistent. Wikipedia itself is still a relatively new environment for me. I have worked on the web for many years.

Not to be confused with Derek (Q25973054), a village in Tolikara Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia.

I've chatted to a range of people about Wikipedia. Am very grateful to the many people who have helped me find my way.
Here in Gauteng, I appreciate Bobby Shabangu (for inducting me to this environment), and Matete Lesele (for the good company). Both have been very kind. Internationally Cogdog's encouragement and open efforts have been really really appreciated.

At the moment I am looking for someone to accompany me as I explore Wikidata!

»You are most welcome to join me on Wikipedia.

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Conversations

Comment: Hi Derek, alas deletion seems to be all the rage these days, in English Wikipedia anyway. There is a blatant element of subjectivity as the deleters only target items posted by those with humble/modest editing records. I once created a biographical article that was made candidate for speedy deletion, but even though I continued adding citations etc. it remained in limbo, until a friend with a high "rank" kindly moved it into mainspace, where it remains to this day.

Comment: Hello Michael. Sorry about taking such a long time to reply. English Wikipedia is a very robust environment and there is an unfortunate arrogance. This is why I really enjoy Vernacular Wikipedia. So much more space on this learning experience platform. (LXP). Derek J Moore (talk · contribs)

Spectacular Vernacular

Derek J Moore

Screenshot Main page of the isiZulu onboarding tool (draft)
Type of site	Onboarding Wikimedia SA
Available in	English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, siSwati onboarding.
Owner	Derek Moore
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	26 April 2025 (2025-04-26)

B Scholars to read

• Enrique Dussel (Q473518)
• All pages with titles containing Enrique Dussel
• Walter Mignolo (Q497968)
• All pages with titles containing Walter Mignolo
• doi:10.1177/20539517251357292

Thanks to Nicholas (ORCID 0000-0001-5525-1593) for reccomndations

Previous Research Projects

Post Digital Privilege: Notes from the rig
The Geopolitics of Post digital Educational Development
Project coordinator	Petar, Michael, Alicia
Duration	May 2024 – Sep 2025

Abstract

Unintentionally and unwittingly, I responded to Escobar’s invitation to embrace a pluriversal narrative. On Wikipedia, I have found an academic heritage that remains rooted within a traditional and dominant knowledge system, combined with small communities of practice that have sponsored a multipolar version of scholarship.

The "truth" of a readily available source that confirms “the facts” to the average Google searcher ties in neatly with modernity. Through interviews with South African Wikipedians, I aim to investigate combined efforts to achieve language equity in South Africa through “Vernacular Wikipedia”. My paper will contain narratives of a few South African Wikipedians who are surfacing the diversity of knowledge systems, enabling the emancipatory promise of the postdigital and uncovering the pluriverse.

I suspect that if I can move beyond the “languages of modernity” (Mingnolo, 1998) and work in alternate but familiar platforms where these facts are constructed, it might be possible to uncover alternate knowledge systems, and their different realities will be surfaced and revealed. The Wikimedia Foundation, with its 346 language versions, offers an entrance into a pluriverse. South Africa has 11 languages on this multilingual platform. They permit the unaware (i.e. the author) to explore complex and diverse spatial realities, using auto-translation, stubs, categories and an onboarding tool as a guide. Those who enter and participate in this multilingual markdown space, are offered a "holding space" to safeguard their customs, heritage, and cultural knowledge in open, educative, and participatory ways.

South Africa’s constitutional intentions are to build up an indigenous knowledge commons and a vernacular systems of thought. This has opened many hidden worlds and their multiple realities to me (a pluriverse?). In the paper, I will be exploring how SADiLaR, Wikipedia and PanSALB have combined their efforts with SWiP to initiate a participatory digital humanities, and have begun to use a platforms' complex ecology to support the construction of a linguistic pluriverse in my home country.

Equity Matters

{{label|Q28564|af}}:public library Category Tree Spatial Data Useful Lists Customizations An edit-a-thon for public libraries Public Libraries in SA This dashboard is intended for those who want to see if their public library is on Wikipedia The tree structure below allows you to view South African libraries by province. Only public libraries that have a page entry on Wikipedia (in english) will appear below. Public libraries in South Africa Public libraries in South Africa by province https://github.com/Web-learning/SPARQL/MostUsedPropertiesforLibraries.sq https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/07/15/introducing-wikivault-a-new-chapter-in-wikipedia-contributions-with-ai/

Community Matters

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Sovereignty Matters

Ranking Language Abr Num Articles Bureaucrats Active Translators Conversations 69 Afrikaans af 130,113 articles 3 bureaucrats Translators Geselshoekie 343 isiNdebele nr 328 articles ? bureaucrats Translators None? 189 Sesotho sa Leboa nso 8,992 articles ? bureaucrats Translators None? 312 siSwathi ss 1,160 articles 0 bureaucrats Translators Likhefi leinthanethi 273 Sesotho st 2,008 articles ? bureaucrats Translators Potjho e kopano 219 Setswana tn 5,551 articles ? bureaucrats Translators none? 317 Xitsonga ts 1,132 articles ? bureaucrats Translators none? 325 Tshivenda ve 909 articles ? bureaucrats Translators none? 266 isiXhosa xh 2,509 articles ? bureaucrats Translators None? 167 isiZulu zu 12,533 articles 0 Administrators Translators Umnyango wamgwamanda

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